Some industries don't experience a lot of change throughout the year as it relates to their products or services, so it can be hard to come up with fresh blog content. There are days when it feels like an endless cycle of rinse and repeat.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea...repeat, that is. Don't get me wrong; writing new posts is a key part of inbound and SEO success. But if you've been blogging for some time, you've likely got some great content that was written in those early days that has fallen off the radar. If it hasn't been updated with current information, its rank in online searches will certainly decline.
Let's take a look at some best practices for optimizing existing posts and some blogging tips to get the best results.
At Weidert, we've written over 1,500 blog posts, so the thought of choosing which ones to repurpose might seem daunting. But with the help of our Hubspot analytics, we can quickly run a report to show which articles are performing well, which are seeing declining engagement, how long visitors are spending on each page, etc. In addition to analyzing metrics, our strategy involves optimizing and reposting the blogs that speak directly to our target personas or those we feel have high value but maybe aren't performing as well as we'd like.
When reviewing your metrics, look for trends. Has a blog post that once performed fairly well slowly declined in engagement over the course of several months, or was traffic growing and now plateaued? These are sure signs it's time to revisit the post and make some adjustments.
One sure sign that a blog post needs to be updated is when the subject matter has changed significantly or if it has outdated information. For example, if you have a blog that shares about an industry regulation that recently changed, it's important to make sure you're sharing accurate information to show you're on top of the latest compliance concerns. Also, if your post shares old statistics or references research that is no longer relevant or outdated, it's time to update.
There are other parameters to consider, however, and it refers back to those analytics I talked about. Just because a blog might not be as up-to-date as you like doesn't mean it should be a priority for updating. With some exceptions, you still want to choose blogs that have relatively high traffic to maximize their SEO possibilities.
You probably have your rockstar blogs that continue to receive the greatest engagement and outshine all others. Even if a blog continues to perform well and sees traffic growth, it's a good idea to optimize it when the time is right. That timing can differ depending on the timeliness of the subject matter and any dated content. But even if nothing's changed, you'll typically want to revisit top-performing posts at least once a year to freshen them up.
Be smart about the ratio of republished blogs versus original blogs, however. There needs to be a balance of new and updated posts, so don't stop publishing original content. It's still critical to publish between 55-70 blog posts if you want to see exponential growth. Remain consistent with new material to reap the most benefits from your marketing strategy.
Featured image. A featured image will appear when the article is shared on social media, so make sure it's appropriate and engaging. Also check that the alt-tags accurately reflect the subject matter of your post.
Meta description. Now that Google allows for longer meta descriptions, take advantage by updating them.
Headline. If your blog post used to be titled "7 Things Every Industrial Manufacturer Needs to Know About the Supply Chain," and you've now added to that number, you'll obviously need to update the title. Updating the title to leverage keywords is also a good idea.
Keywords. Yep. Make sure you review whether the post has an appropriate number of short- and long-tail keywords.
Author. If you're tasked with making significant updates that are basically a rewrite and you didn't write the original blog, then you may want to update the author. If the original post was actually written by a ghost writer and the person listed as author no longer works for your company, it might also be appropriate to update the author.
Graphics. Do any graphics look dated? Did your company go through a rebranding effort and the post still has remnants of your old color palette or maybe even a graphic containing your old logo? Time for a change.
Call outs. Is there a statement or quote that could be highlighted in a callout or bolded text? Look at ways to emphasize major points or take-aways.
Internal links. You've hopefully published plenty of new blog articles, too, so add a couple links to other relevant posts you've written or updated product pages.
Outbound links. Did a recent online article about industry news or research prompt you to update your blog post? Reference it and share the link when appropriate.
Long paragraphs. Take the opportunity to break up lengthy paragraphs and blocks of text to make it easier to digest.
CTA. Make sure the CTA is still relevant. You may have created new gated content since the blog was first published, so it might be an opportunity to feature it instead.
Conclusion. Strengthen your closing thoughts by creating a good lead-in to your CTA and an invitation to visit your contact page to talk more. After all, the whole point of an inbound marketing strategy is building connections with qualified leads.
One thing to note is that you don't want to update the URL for high-traffic posts. If you change it, then any SEO data tied to that URL will be eliminated and you'll eventually be starting from scratch. On the contrary, however, low-traffic posts may actually benefit from an updated URL as shorter URLs that are better targeted with higher volume keywords could perform better.
We've optimized a wide range of blog posts, from very low traffic (less than 30 views per month) to our highest trafficked blog post (over 15,000 views per month). Every single optimized post averaged a higher amount of views, CTA clicks and new leads.
We should note that updating blog posts isn't the only change we made. We redesigned our website in September 2017, which also had an impact on our engagement. But based on other metrics such as the time spent on the pages and increased submissions, it's clear the updated content resonated with readers.
You really can't go wrong with optimizing and republishing your top viewed blog posts (or those you feel have value but aren't performing as well as you like), as long as you continue to remain consistent by adding original posts to your blog. By optimizing existing blog posts, you'll not only create better user experiences and position your company as a thought leader, you'll feel just a little less pressure to come up with that next big idea.


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Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1943
The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina today through their sole political representative body, the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, desire for their country, which is neither Serbian, nor Croatian, nor Muslim, but Serbian, and Muslim, and Croatian, to be a free and fraternal Bosnia and Herzegovina, one in which full equality of all Serbs, Muslims, and Croats, will be ensured. The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina will partake on an equal footing with the rest of our people in the building of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia.
Translated by Bojana Vuković

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Taking advantage of some downtime between projects for an XCAM RGB/NIR unit, we flew GeoXphere's home town of Basingstoke to see what we can produce with the latest processing software.
We're pleased to announce that Voxel3D have adopted XCAM as part of their strategy to deliver high quality aerial photography products in Spain.
We take a look back at a project we completed in the Summer of 2017 in Spain.
We've started the year with a project that's quite different to the norm for XCAM. Instead of surveying towns and cities, we've been surveying the sea.
With 2017 drawing to a close, we've been reflecting on the past 12 months, GeoXphere's first full year in operation.
Tom attended the EuroSDR/ISPRS Oblique Workshop in Barcelona this year. Here's his report.


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The Centenary of Anzac
At 5am on 11 November 1918, three German government representatives accepted the Armistice terms presented to them by an allied commander, General Ferdinand Foch of the French Army. The Armistice became effective at 11am the same day and the 4-year long First World War ended.
After World War II the Australian Government agreed to the United Kingdom's proposal that Armistice Day be renamed Remembrance Day to commemorate those who were killed in both World Wars.
In October 1997 the then Governor-General issued a Proclamation declaring 11 November as Remembrance Day - a day to remember the sacrifice of those who have died for Australia in wars and conflicts.
Former NSW Centenary of Anzac Ambassador and radio broadcaster Gareth McCray OAM has written and produced a mini special to commemorate Remembrance Day.
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NSW Remembrance Services
Public commemorations are a vital way to continue the spirit of Remembrance Day each year and honour the memory of the men and women who have served and are currently serving.
11am on 11 November is a time for us to stop and remember. A number of bell towers across the state will ring their bells at 11am and we can all observe one minute of silence to remember the service and sacrifice of our veterans.
Readings, poems and protocols for holding a Remembrance Day commemoration are available on this website - plan and deliver a commemoration - as is a recording of the Ode of Remembrance, the Last Post, a minute's silence and the Rouse. You can download the recording by clicking on the 3 dots on the right side of the media player.
the Ode, the Last Post, a minute's silence and the Rouse
The red poppy
The Flanders poppy was immortalised by Lieutenant-Colonel John McRae's poem In Flanders Fields (1915), and became the enduring symbol of the war for veterans and remembered as the only flower to bloom in the shattered landscape of no man's land. The artillery shells and shrapnel stirred up the earth in France and Belgium and exposed the seeds to the light they needed to germinate. According to folklore they were red from the blood of fallen soldiers.
Mcrae served as a medical officer with the first Canadian Contingent in France during the First World War. When in charge of a small first-aid post at the second battle if Ypres in 1915, he wrote the now very famous poem
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
We are the dead, short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
Take up our quarrel with the foe,
The Torch: be yours to hold it high!
The verses were apparently sent anonymously to the English magazine, Punch, which published them under the title, In Flanders' Fields. Colonel McCrae died while on active duty in May 1918.
The poppy soon became widely accepted throughout the allied nations as the flower of remembrance to be worn on Armistice Day. The Australian Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League (now known as the RSL) first sold poppies for Armistice Day in 1921. Each poppy was sold for a shilling: five pence was donated to a charity for French children, six pence went to the League's own welfare work, and one penny went to the League's national coffers. Today the RSL continues to sell poppies for Remembrance Day to raise funds for its welfare work. This year people can donate to the RSL's Poppy Appeal online at poppyappeal.com.au.
Red poppies will be projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House at dawn and on the evening of 11 November.
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A great way to commemorate Remembrance Day this year is to post to your social media accounts, whether Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.
Below are two images you can use and remember to include the hashtags: #RemembranceDay2021, #LestWeForget and #WeWillRememberThem.
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Schools' resource pack
The NSW Office for Veterans Affairs has also developed a schools' resource pack with information on the history and importance of the poppy. It includes a guide to make your own poppy. You're welcome to download a copy of the pack.
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"Balancing stress and recovery is critical not just in competitive sports, but also in managing energy in all facets of our lives." The Power of Full Engagement by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr.
Have you ever heard of the "Ripple Effect"?
Can you picture throwing a stone into a smooth pool of water and what happens to the water just from the impact of the stone?
Now put that into the perspective of your life.
Can you see a "Ripple Effect" that may be happening in your life, based on how you are living, right now?
I saw a post on Facebook from a Psychologist, using the glass analogy.
Instead of a glass half full or half empty, she says just hold that glass.
How long will your body be able to maintain holding that glass up, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months?
This analogy puts how you may be living your life into perspective. How long can your body endure being pushed to the max?
What is the "Ripple Effect" of having to hold that "glass" longer than necessary?
Always angry at our family?
And the thought of exercise, just makes you more tired?
Total confession here, I have to admit, I have been guilty of trying to hold up that glass, much longer than I needed.
And everything would make me cry or get angry, from one end of the emotional spectrum to the next.
So what did I have to do in order to stop holding this glass all the time?
How did I create a new positive "Ripple Effect" in my life?
I realized I was falsely giving advice that I wasn't' t really living.
I felt like that Coach who sits on the side lines, eating pizza and drinking beer; while the team was sweating bullets, eating broccoli and veggies.
OH NO!! That is not me, and that is not who I want to project or be perceived of being.
So I had to dig deep and seek the help of my mentors.
What would they advise me to do?
This is when I remembered my training and the opening statement of a Metabolic Effect group class.
"This is a rest based workout.
That means that you actually want to rest in this workout.
If you do this workout correctly, you could be resting as much as you are working.
So a workout is recommending that you rest? "..Force yourself to rest"?
In other words, stop trying to be the hero, victim or whatever I thought I was being by holding onto that stinking glass longer than I needed to hold it.
I had to "REST", in order for me to "GET BACK INTO IT", at my best.
By resting, and forcing myself to take a break, the results or "Ripple Effect" for me was the ability to now be fully engaged in my life again.
And now I no longer feel like that "imposter" dolling out advice I don't follow. I live my life taking my rest "forcing myself to rest", so I can "get back into it".
How did I do it, and what can I do to help you stop the negative "Ripple Effect" in your life?
Because there is no one else to get it done, right?
WOW! That is so egotistical and selfish.
It didn't really occur to me, until I stopped, I was a total hypocrite.
Telling my clients to rest, take days off, be sure to feel rested, and here I was pushing, pushing, pushing… IMPOSTER!
No longer do I say this and feel like an imposter. I turn off, let things wait, and I take a rest.
Here is the thing, it is not always about time. It is totally about the energy you have left after holding that glass all the time.
How much energy can you muster to be the best…?
If you are always holding the glass "all the time"?
Most professional athlete's build in their rest and off season. If they didn't then their careers tend to be cut short by over working and stressing their bodies.
As most of us are not professional athletes, we live under the premise that we have to keep going full steam ahead "all the time".
Taking daily energy breaks, throughout the day, building in your rest can totally help.
I know for myself (which has been proven with research) you can be so much more productive when you build in breaks every 90 minutes throughout your day.
There is something to be said about saying it is okay to a take break and rest.
And as much as I thought I had it all together, I had to go back to my mentors and advisors, in order to give myself permission to rest.
The work will always be there, but I found I wasn't getting anything productive or fulfilling done by always being "at it".
If you know that you are trying so hard to hold onto that glass and it is having a negative "Ripple Effect" on your life, heed my advice (from my own personal experience).
In order to work as hard as you can, you need to rest and rest completely!
If you are saying "Hey Jen, that is me totally" and you feel like you need a little more help letting go of that glass, join my email inner circle.
Every week I give real life scenarios that may help you let go of the glass.


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Innovative Restaurateurs: Guiding Lettuce Entertain You's Explosive Growth
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Original Article: "Innovative Restaurateurs: Guiding Lettuce Entertain You's Explosive Growth"
If you've dined in restaurants across Chicago anytime in the last 48 years, it's likely that one of them was owned by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. Name a category, and the restaurant group run by the Melman family has some kind of presence in it.
There's fast casual, with Wow Bao, featuring Asian buns and dumplings, and Big Bowl, offering noodles and curries. There's also casual Spanish cuisine, with Café Ba-Ba-Reeba, which first introduced many Chicagoans to tapas. There's even upscale dining, in the form of RPM Steak and Italian restaurants.
And Lettuce is no longer simply a fixture in the Windy City. Its outlets have spread to nine states, and Wow Bao is now in airports like Reagan National in Washington, D.C.
Lettuce president, R.J. Melman, part of the family's second generation to run the company, said there's no master growth plan in place to expand the empire. Instead, Melman explained, the privately held group is enjoying the rare luxury of doing pretty much what it wants.
"Want to do fine dining? Let's do it," Melman said. "Want to do quick casual? Let's do it."
That strategy has led to 60 different restaurant concepts, 120 restaurants and 7,500 employees, as well as a 2015 James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award for Melman's father, Richard. The company currently operates in nine states, including a storefront in Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
Richard Melman launched the group's first restaurant, R.J. Grunts, in 1971 with his partner, Jerry Orzoff. (The location was named for the two men, plus Orzoff's girlfriend.)
R.J. Grunts, which featured one of the country's first salad bars, came along as restaurants across the country were beginning to experiment with new styles of service and cuisine.
More distinct tweaks to new restaurants soon followed. As a result, Lettuce became a training ground for dozens of chefs, front of the house managers, and staff that have gone on to work at other restaurants in Chicago, and elsewhere, over the years.
R.J. Grunts was a playground for Melman, his brother Jerrod, and sister Molly, all of whom are now partners in the family business. "I have amazing memories," he said. "I got to go to openings and play in the [walk-in] coolers."
At Shaw's Crab House, a fixture with business diners that opened in 1985, the young Melmans recalled being fascinated by the live lobsters swimming in fish tanks. "I brought home a bowl of oysters and crabs as a pet, and put them in fresh water. A day later, they had all died," R.J. said, laughing.
In the 1980s, his father gave him his first job as a boy at Ed Debevic's, a retro diner in Chicago's River North neighborhood. "I wanted to buy a toy camper, and my dad said I had to have a job," he said. Melman was paid 10 cents an hour working as a host and seating customers.
The job wasn't intended to teach him how to run a restaurant, but Melman said he soaked up his parents' expertise by watching them in action. "I've always seen that my parents cared about people," he said.
Early on, his father had the opportunity to take R.J. Grunt's national, with a chain similar to Hard Rock Cafe. "He didn't want to do that. He didn't love travel. He wanted to focus on Chicago," Melman said.
A NEW VISION OF EXPANSION
At the moment, Lettuce is working on one of its largest projects to date in Chicago, a four-story space on the Chicago River. It's part of a $50 million redevelopment of a building that once housed Quaker Oats.
Lettuce's restaurant spaces in Chicago cost between $300 and $800 per square foot to operate, depending on location and type of cuisine, said Melman. (The company does not disclose its revenue figures.)
Chicago has never built up its riverfront in the same ways as cities such as San Antonio, Reno, and Boston. "It's an area that's known for turning green in March" when it is dyed for St. Patrick's Day, "and not much else," Melman said.
The new space, called RPM On The Water, will house three separate Lettuce operations, including an events space. The "R" in RPM stands for Bill Rancic, winner of the first Apprentice program, who has since become a property and restaurant developer.
Melman said that Lettuce's partners have been crucial to its success. But the top criteria for joining forces isn't cuisine or financial clout. Instead, it is "talented people who are good at developing others," he said.
But Lettuce, like many restaurant groups, is suffering from a labor shortage. In 2009, when Lettuce opened a restaurant in Los Angeles, it advertised for applicants and got 1,000 people. Today, five or six people might respond to a job advertisement at a Lettuce-owned restaurant.
"[The low unemployment rate] is great for the U.S., in general, but it makes it hard to find people," Melman said.
The company is now looking at opening new restaurants in Florida, Texas, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles as well, with plans of opening up to two restaurants per year over the next few years.
Melman says Lettuce keeps "idea files" on different concepts, sketching out what a place would look like, dishes for its menu, and how big it needs to be. Then the company looks for a space that can fit the idea, and decides whether the idea can generate enough revenue to be profitable in that setting.
A FRANCHISE MINDSET
Because Lettuce has grown so much, local Chicago food writer Michael Nagrant thinks the company is moving away from individual restaurant concepts to those that seem like "the franchise is already in mind at launch."
Nagrant said that Lettuce is focused on the types of restaurants that can create buzz and multiple Instagram posts. "Lettuce's innovation is in refinement of the club-staurant genre. They're leaders in this game," he added.
Personally, Melman says he's craving a Thai restaurant for the group. But, he said, "The future for us is a lot like the past looked like. We'll do new concepts, and grow existing concepts. There's no shortage of ideas. It's just a matter of time."
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Essays | October 19, 2016
Lost and Found: Fictional Takes on the War in Iraq
Mindy Misener on truth, counsel, and the missing man in recent fiction about the Iraq War.
by Mindy Misener
In Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain (Ecco, 2012), the titular Billy grapples with the recent death of Sergeant Shroom, whom he deeply admired. In particular, Billy yearns for the knowledge, perspectives, and good advice of his former leader. However, the novel won't allow Billy to simply grieve. There's too much else going on.
Fountain's novel takes place at Texas Stadium on Thanksgiving Day: Billy and the rest of "Bravo squad" (or just "Bravo"; both are inaccurate nicknames perpetrated by the American news media) begin the final hours of their two-week "Victory Tour," which will end after Bravo is featured at the halftime show of the Cowboys/Bears football game. Actually, Bravo is a sort of sideshow to the real halftime show: Destiny's Child. They're being used as a media stunt, but why should they complain? The food is good, and the cheerleaders are hot.
Bravo's celebrity is a result of the dramatic battle at Al-Ansakar Canal; an embedded reporter caught the whole thing on video and the footage went viral. Many of the soldiers in the squad, including Billy, are now decorated. Also, there's talk of a Hollywood movie—a tantalizing possibility that painfully sputters throughout the novel. In addition to contributing tantalizing notions of fame, the movie adds another layer of unreality to the rest of the unreality that is an NFL football game on Thanksgiving Day. If you were inclined to ruminate—and Billy is—you would have a lot to think about. If, like Billy, you also experienced yourself as less than wise and knowledgeable about the world, you would—and Billy does—want someone to talk to. In Billy's case, Shroom is that someone. He was that mix of practical and philosophical that makes for an admirable leader. For example:
… Shroom advised [Billy] to place his feet one in front of the other instead of side by side, that way if an IED blew low through the Humvee Billy might lose only one foot instead of two. After a couple of weeks of aligning his feet just so, tucking his hands inside his body armor, always wearing eye pro and all the rest, he went to Shroom and asked how do you keep yourself from going crazy? Shroom nodded like this was an eminently reasonable question to ask, then told him of an Inuit shaman he'd read about somewhere, how this man could supposedly look at you and know to the day when you were going to die… Shroom's point was made. If a bullet's going to get you, it's already been fired.
Shroom's absence from the novel's present action makes the rest of Billy's problems more acute. Not only are a particular Cowboys cheerleader and the war and his family pressing on Billy's mind, but the very experience of being featured at a nationally televised event is its own kind of exhausting, in large part because of the way Bravo squad is fawned over by the American public. Fountain usually captures such exchanges with a sprinkling of word-confetti over the printed page, opting where he can for a phonetic spelling; "terrRist," "currj," "nina leven," and other words fall like a soft rain, indicating Billy's distracted and slight comprehension. It's not that Billy doesn't care what they're saying, it's that he truly doesn't understand it. Billy and the bloodthirsty American civilian might as well live on different planets. Fountain masterfully captures a Billy who is complex, tender, aching, frightened, resolved, and he does so with such agile and resourceful prose that we might suspect Billy a little too composed if he didn't regularly get distracted by things as simple as girls, his hangover, and dumb jokes.
Overall, Billy's interiority sets him apart—from the clueless civilians, the uber-wealthy execs, even from the football players, whose every need is met by an astounding reserve of gear and professionals. And as he basically gets along with everyone, he hardly even recognizes how alone he is. We might not recognize it either, except for the moments in which we realize that he has no one (besides said cheerleader, whom Fountain doesn't paint as wisest of counsels) to whom he can bring his most pressing concerns. For example, in regards to his actions at the canal, Billy asks himself: "Is this what they mean by courage? Simply doing all the things you were trained to do, albeit everything at once and very fast?"
We have the sense that there are answers, or at least wise perspectives, to Billy's questions. Billy has this sense, too, and though he has some real and helpful conversations, by and large his interactions are characterized by the kind of heartbreaking near-miss experienced by a person in need whose needs can't or won't be met by those around him. Billy is not alone, but he is lonely in a way that matters, without the counsel he needs to make sense of his surroundings.
Matt Gallagher's Youngblood (Atria, 2016) also presents a main character longing for the counsel of an absent leader. But in stark contrast to a nationally televised sporting event, Youngblood opens on a deliberately tepid note: first-person narrator Lieutenant Porter and his platoon have been assigned, once again, to "Electricity recon," which is "army language for walking around a neighborhood asking people how many hours a day they had power." But the novel's pace quickens with the arrival of a new staff sergeant, Chambers, battle-hardened and immediately respected by the other soldiers, who begins challenging Porter's authority, undermining him in objectively small but threatening ways. This leads Porter to consult his older brother—"Captain William Porter, Commanding, West Point Graduate of 2002, [who] had pulled two of his soldiers from a burning Humvee in the Battle of Baqubah in 2007, earning him a Silver Star"—about what he should do. Will advises his brother to try to have Chambers removed. But higher-up makes Chambers the new platoon sergeant instead—which is to say, the novel sticks Porter with Chambers for good.
Around the same time as Chambers' arrival, Porter is drawn into the mystery of a man known to locals as "the Shaba." Porter's interpreter Snoop, translating from the words of a mukhtar, says that Shaba "could change faces when he wanted to? He say it's a special American army trick only the greatest soldiers can do. I don't know, LT Jack. Crazy Arab talk." The only thing Porter knows for sure about Shaba is that he could navigate both the Arab and the American worlds with ease—and ironically, it's Porter's lack of confidence in both of these worlds that not only hampers his investigation into the Shaba, but also hampers his effectiveness as a leader in the Army.
Meanwhile, Chambers' influence on Porter's men grows. Then Porter identifies the mysterious Shaba as Elijah Rios, who is dead, and whom Chambers knew and touts as "…'bona fide, a real warrior. I owe everything to him. He saved my life.' " From here on, Porter's war experience turns into a complex and dangerous mystery. Is the Shaba/Rios a bona fide warrior, a man in line with Chambers' dark intentions, or is he a bridge-builder, worthy of the respect of the locals? The answer is unclear. Porter knows Chambers can't be trusted, but to what extent? Time and again, a cultural, linguistic, bureaucratic, or interpersonal barrier stands between Porter and the answers he wants, which themselves stand in for Porter's larger questions about the war—what he and his men are doing in Iraq, why it matters.
Like Billy Lynn, Porter is in need of advice from someone he trusts. His older brother Will might be more useful if he weren't also so wrapped up in his dating life. And Rios himself would obviously be able to clear up a lot of Porter's questions—but Rios is dead.
Porter does eventually find his way through the mystery of the Shaba—sort of. And he gets to the bottom of Chambers—sort of. But what he learns satisfies basic curiosity without feeling like much of a prize or a conclusion, and the novel ends on an ambiguously tragic note. Throughout the story, Lieutenant Porter is more or less alone as he pieces together what he can. After gaining yet another piece of information from a different mukhtar, Porter tells us he's "certain I'd just found another piece to the puzzle that was Iraq, but bemused as to where to place it.
Like the narrator in Billy Lynn's Half Halftime Walk, Lieutenant Porter shares a preoccupation with mysteries both immediate and abstract. But where Billy wonders how to get laid and how the "millions" fly around the world, Porter wonders more specifically about the war, asking himself at one point: "Our grandfathers had pushed back the onslaught of fascism. Just what the fuck were we doing?"
That question, in its focus on communal action, indicates the possibility of a communal answer. Youngblood argues that the truth about the war in Iraq—whatever that is—cannot be found alone. It also argues that the possibility of truth lies in not only particular people but in communal understanding. But how can a community uncover a truth when the only men (it seems) who can offer it are distracted, damaged, or dead?
Themes of confusion persist in contemporary wartime fiction even when the missing individual is not a designated leader. In The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers (Back Bay Books, 2012), the missing man is Private Murphy, and the narrator, his friend and would-be protector Private Bartle, describes both the weeks leading up to Murphy's death and what follows after Bartle comes home from the war.
Bartle is supposed to be protecting Murphy based on a promise he made to Murphy's mother soon before they shipped out. She asked him to take care of her son, to return him safely to her; with offhanded reluctance, he agrees. A friendship between the two men unfolds, perhaps because of the promise, perhaps in spite of it. Murphy is young, hopeful, and boyish, traits that in the novel's logic make him susceptible to a strangely determined kind of hopelessness. In a revealing moment, soon before Murphy purposefully wanders off under strange circumstances, Bartle tells him, "We've got each other." Murphy replies: "I don't want to be tight with anyone because of this. Being here can't be the reason we're tight. I won't let it be." Private Bartle then tells us this:
I knew what he was trying to say and it frightened me. He wouldn't be bound by this place to anything or anyone, even me. And I was afraid because I wondered what would be required for him to keep that promise to himself.
Murphy, it seems, is particularly adept at nothing except having his own thoughts, and even then his thoughts don't strike us as particularly insightful or high-minded—just very honest. But this honesty leads him to his own demise, a gruesome conclusion that Bartle holds himself responsible for, though exactly what he did or did not do doesn't receive much attention; rather, he "was guilty of something, that much is certain." In The Yellow Birds, everything is unsettled. "The war tried to kill us in the spring," the novel begins. It continues later in its opening sequence with:
The war would take what it could get. It was patient. It didn't care about objectives, or boundaries, whether you were loved my many or not at all. While I slept that summer, the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on. And I knew the war would have its way.
The Yellow Birds is a far darker tale than Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk or Youngblood, not only because it is more graphic, and its narrator more depressed, than in the other two novels, but also, I think, because Bartle doesn't miss Murphy in the way that Billy misses Shroom, longing for his guidance, for the things that might have been said. And neither is Bartle preoccupied with Murphy in the way that Porter is preoccupied with Rios, who holds crucial pieces to an intricate puzzle. Murphy may represent an answer to a puzzle, but the puzzle is Bartle himself, and its solution is an accounting of guilt. Guilt was there in the beginning, assigned in a moment that's hard to identify. As Bartle tells us, of the night he and others went looking for Murphy, "We had, in a strange way, surrendered. But to what, we did not know."
Finally—more briefly, but no less importantly—I want to consider Cole Becher's short story "Charybdis," which first appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of The Iowa Review, and was reprinted in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2014. In the story, an unnamed narrator and his company have just returned from Iraq, where they'd "spent eight months walking up and down berms and around shit-filled yards in Iraq swinging AN/PSS-12 mine detectors." Different men handle the new calm at home in different ways, but one of them, Conrad, can't settle down. He buys a cheap metal detector at Wal-Mart and begins patrolling neighborhoods. He goes missing for longer and longer periods of time (the combinations of what he reveals on these self-assigned patrols, and how both he and the community respond to what he finds, are some of the story's finest moments), until his company turns out in force to hunt for him. An unsuccessful "ploy to lure him out" changes when the men "stopped half-assing and made the ruse real." What follows is a darkly funny staging of the Iraq war in a well-to-do area, which results in a fake volunteer-deployment list, which in turn gets them all sent back to Iraq. At the story's conclusion the narrator, in explaining why they could never find Conrad, says: "You have to understand: he's one of the best. He didn't want to be brought back, even by us. And I can't say I blame him."
As with Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Youngblood, and The Yellow Birds, the missing man in "Charybdis" holds some kind of answer—in Conrad's case, a very concrete one: an account of where he is, how he evaded their best tactics. But as the story's gestures become incrementally more funny and more fanciful, its conclusion becomes more pointed. The real question, the important question, is not the question Conrad can answer but the one he provides. It's the question the rest of the men can only answer for themselves: how the hell did we end up here?
Now that's a question with an answer. But who will be willing to answer it? All of these fictions show how the truth, perceived in another, seems like a solid and useful tool. The truth we already have, on the other hand, may not serve so obvious a purpose. We may even wonder what good it is at all.
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Mindy Misener grew up in Maine. In 2014 she received an MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writer's Program. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan. Suggested reads: The Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard; The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton; and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra.
Also from Mindy Misener
Holding Experience "Just as it Is": an Interview with Richard Hawley A Doubter's Almanac, by Ethan Canin Tightrope, by Simon Mawer
At Night All Blood is Black, by David Diop
Sorry for Your Trouble, by Richard Ford
Soldiering On: An Interview with J. A. Bernstein
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CORDE regards youths as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value and education can help village youths to become 'Promoters of Community Well-being'. CORDE believes that all youths can participate in community building based on the fundamental principle of unity and service. CORDE builds spiritual, material and social capacity of youths and trains youths to tutor fellow youths to acquire literacy, community service and scientific, technological, mathematical capabilities. With these capabilities, the youths help fellow villagers to carry out environmental, health and sustainable agriculture projects.
Currently hundreds of CORDE youth volunteers provide supplementary education to 3490 children and junior youths in more than 186 locations throughout remote communities in Cambodia. These youths run these programs in their homes, under the trees or spaces that the community provides to CORDE. Youths are also trained to collaborate with the community to start schools where there is no school.
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require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'

describe "Sending Function Group" do
  before do
    @client = DocuSign::Client.new(DOCU_SIGN_CONFIG)
  end

  describe "create_and_send_envelope" do
    use_vcr_cassette :create_and_send_envelope, :record => :new_episodes
    it "should successfully create and send a simple envelope" do
      envelope = DocuSign::Envelope.new.tap do |e|
        e.transaction_id = "Test#{Time.now.to_i.to_s}"
        e.account_id = "678cce00-95a7-4279-9101-557b3868d7aa"
        e.asynchronous = false
        e.subject = "Test Envelope"
        e.notification do |n|
          n.use_account_defaults = false
          n.reminders = {
            :reminder_enabled => true,
            :reminder_delay => 2,
            :reminder_frequency => 2
          }
          n.expirations = {
            :expire_enabled => true,
            :expire_after => 10,
            :expire_warn => 2
          }
        end
      end
      # Documents
      envelope.documents do |e|
        file = File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../fixtures/document.pdf', "rb")
        contents = file.read
        e.document :id => 1,
          :name => "Document",
          :pdf_bytes => Base64.encode64(contents),
          :file_extension => 'pdf'
      end
      # Recipients
      envelope.recipients do |e|
        e.recipient :id => 1,
          :user_name => "Recipient 1",
          :email => "donald@donaldpiret.com",
          :type => "Signer",
          :require_id_lookup => false
      end
      # Tabs
      envelope.tabs do |e|
        e.tab :document_id => 1,
          :recipient_id => 1,
          :page_number => 1,
          :x_position => 100,
          :y_position => 200,
          :type => "SignHere",
          :anchor => {
            :string => "blank",
            :x => "200",
            :y => 0,
            :unit => "Pixels",
            :ignore_if_not_present => false
          }
        e.tab :document_id => 1,
          :recipient_id => 1,
          :page_number => 1,
          :x_position => 100,
          :y_position => 200,
          :type => "SignerAttachment",
          :anchor => {
            :string => "blank",
            :x => "200",
            :y => 0,
            :unit => "Pixels",
            :ignore_if_not_present => false
          }
      end
      result = @client.create_and_send_envelope(envelope)
      result.should be_an_instance_of(DocuSign::EnvelopeStatus)
    end
  end

  describe "invalid requests" do
    use_vcr_cassette :invalid_request

    before do
      @envelope = DocuSign::Envelope.new.tap do |e|
        e.transaction_id = "Test#{Time.now.to_i.to_s}"
        e.account_id = "678cce00-95a7-4279-9101-557b3868d7aa"
        e.asynchronous = false
      end
    end

    it "should successfully raise an error" do
      lambda{ @client.create_and_send_envelope(@envelope) }.should raise_exception(DocuSign::Error)
    end
  end
end

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Alternatives to antibiotics for drug-resistant gonorrhea – an interview with Jenn Edwards
Authors: Jenn Edwards (Abigail Wexner Research Institute, OH, USA)
Antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea has been an area of growing concern across the past couple of years, but could there be alternatives to these drugs for treatment and prevention? In this interview, we speak to Jenn Edwards from the Abigail Wexner Research Institute (OH, USA) about her research using the primary human epithelial cell models to examine Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections, the potential for vaccination against gonorrhea and a possible host-targeted therapy for this infection.
First, can you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background?
So, I was a non-traditional student – I went back to school as a single mom of three in my 30s, did my undergraduate and master's in a small liberal arts college in Northern Minnesota. I then went to the University of Iowa (IA, USA) where I trained with Mike Apicella. From there, I moved to Ohio and joined the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in 2004.
Why is drug-resistant gonorrhea an area of particular concern?
Essentially, we are running out of ways to treat it. This bug is notorious for its ability to develop resistance mechanisms and it is also highly human adaptive, so it is very difficult to not only find ways to treat it but also to find ways to prevent it, and obviously we are a few years at least away from the vaccines. In light of this, finding different antimicrobials that might actually work against drug-resistant gonorrhea is critical right now.
Would you say cases are increasing?
They are increasing. I know there has been an 80% increase in Australia since 2009 and a 75% increase in the United States since 2009. So, cases are on the rise and it is only going to get worse with the emergence of more untreatable strains.
Why do you think vaccines are a valuable option?
Well, as I just mentioned, even if we do develop new antibiotics, they are probably only going to be a short-term solution. The only true way to eradicate this bacteria is through a vaccine.
How do you think understanding the host–pathogen interaction could help identify new diagnostics and new treatments?
I think this is a critical area of research. You can't solve the problem if you don't fully understand it, and although there have been some scientific discoveries that have been serendipitous, for the most part all major scientific breakthroughs come through the work of many, many researchers over many, many years.
"I think a host-directed therapy for gonorrhea is a really promising strategy because of the pathogen's ability to manipulate the host and develop resistance."
As one example of how host–pathogen interactions could translate to treatment options, in our work many years ago we identified this host molecule termed complement receptor three (CR3), which is present on the cervical cell surface. We identified that CR3 serves as the major receptor by which the bacteria invade the cervix and we are now using that information to develop a new host-targeted approach to treating gonorrhea. I think a host-directed therapy for gonorrhea is a really promising strategy because of the pathogen's ability to manipulate the host and develop resistance.
Are there any candidates for the treatment of gonorrhea you feel particularly optimistic about?
So, there are three traditional antibiotics in the pipeline, which all show promise, and they are in various stages of clinical trials. However, these new, traditional antibiotics are probably only a short-term solution.
We have taken an alternative approach and we have actually identified two drugs that can be repurposed; one is carbamazepine, which is used to treat epilepsy; the other is methyldopa, which is used to treat gestational hypertension.
What we have discovered using our cell culture model, which is primary human cervical epithelial cells, is that we can get a 100% cure of an established infection by blocking this interaction that the bacteria have with the cervical cell surface, and that includes the multi-drug resistant, 'untreatable' strains. So, we are excited about that!
We have also seen with targeting the host, there is absolutely no resistance – you can do sequential infections and bacteria are still susceptible.
And is repurposing drugs is an easier strategy starting from scratch?
Yes definitely. It can fast track them into clinical use because they are already US FDA approved, they already have established safety profiles and the pharmacokinetics are all already known. Moreover, for the two drugs we have identified we have actually been using them at doses that are below the normal recommended doses.
What research do you think we should do in the next 5–10 years to stimulate progress?
I think, first of all, there has been a lot of recent interest in vaccine development and development of new antibiotics but I think we also need to put more focus on basic research because, as I mentioned earlier, you can't solve the problem if you don't know what the problem is.
We need to develop better models, for example, humanized mice models using human source materials and multi-organ chip models, then we need to get more specimens from humans and assess how those correlate to what we are finding in the lab. I think there needs to be just as much emphasis on the basic research as it there does in finding a new antimicrobial or a new vaccine candidate.
Finally, is there anything else you would like to add about your research?
Just that scientifically gonorrhea it is a fascinating organism and that we are really excited about this host-targeted approach – it has just been really exciting to see it evolve over the years!
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Facebook to Ban Benjamin Franklin for Inciting Violence
On October 22, 2020 October 22, 2020 By Sarah AngletonIn Current Events, Journalism, Law11 Comments
On October 22 of 1730 The Pennsylvania Gazette ran a truly incendiary story. It was an account of a good old-fashioned witch trial, and it displayed a great deal of unforgivable misjudgment on the part of the newspaper to run it at all.
Two defendants, a male and female stood accused, but were clever enough to willingly subject themselves to the trial on the condition that two of their accusers stood with them. The four, then, were first weighed against the largest Bible anyone could find. As everyone surely knows, the Bible will outweigh any soulless witch. Of course, it didn't. Not even the smallest of them.
That's a witch if I ever saw one. Or at least one of these people probably is. unattributed, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The next part of the trial, before six hundred peers of the accused, took place at the mill pond since, logically, witches float. The two men and two women were bound and dunked. If they drowned, then they clearly couldn't be witches. If they managed to surface, they'd best be burned at the stake.
But that didn't go exactly as planned, either. The first to surface was the male accuser who explained that if he was a witch, he certainly had no knowledge of it. It's hard to fault a guy for that. And then there were the ladies whose flimsy shifts must surely have made them more buoyant, as 18th century women's clothing tended to do. The appropriate decision was made to postpone the trial for a warmer day when the ladies could be presented naked, just to reassure the crowd of highly proper Puritans that nothing improper was going on.
Yes, that Benjamin Franklin. He was much funnier than he looks. By David Martin – The White House Historical Association, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9390044
Because the article was clearly entirely factual, not satirical in the least bit, and inflamed such violence against, well someone, probably, Facebook decided to take it down and immediately suspend any ability for The Pennsylvania Gazette to share content on its massive and far-reaching platform.
Obviously, I jest. As far as I know Facebook never did any such thing to The Pennsylvania Gazette or to the author of the satirical "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly." That author happened to be the young polymath Benjamin Franklin who would go on to help birth a nation, invent bifocals, and make questionable choices regarding electricity and poultry. He also was fond of writing satire and of making a little fun of the hypocrisy in Puritan culture.
And in 1730, Facebook could take a joke.
But apparently not in 2020.
This past week, Facebook removed a post by the Babylon Bee, a publication that, to the best of my knowledge, has never electrocuted a turkey and has only ever been known as a satire site. We're talking really silly stuff here, like the recent articles: "Senators Vow to Hold Big Tech Accountable by Flying them to D. C. and Saying Mean Things to Them" and "Embarrassed Pope Realizes He's Been Reading the Bible Upside Down this Whole Time."
Amy Coney Barrett, who has probably never weighed anyone against a duck in court. Rachel Malehorn, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
To be fair, neither of those is the really disturbing article that made Facebook demonetize the Babylon Bee's page with cries that their article incites violence. The truly dangerous post was about the entirely factual senate confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in which she was accused of being a witch by Senator Hirono of Hawaii, who is wise in the ways of science, and who insisted the nominee's soul be weighed against a duck.
Oh wait, that can't be right. That's a schtick from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You know, I bet Senator Hirono didn't even say anything about Amy Coney Barrett being a witch just because she has so much poise and apparently no need for notes in order to answer hard-hitting questions that she literally legally cannot answer.
Huh. I see what they did there. That's clever. It's probably even worth a chuckle. And violence. So much violence. Actually, I am feeling a little incited here. Thank goodness for Facebook's censorship, or who knows what I might do.
Well, what I might do is get put into Facebook prison for this post, which frankly, would be a badge of honor. So feel free to share away, and let's just see what happens.
Give Me My Seventeenth Day!
On September 3, 2015 September 3, 2015 By Sarah AngletonIn History, Law1 Comment
Today is the sixteenth day of my children's school year. Sixteen days of getting to know their teachers, running from the bees that invaded to school playground over the summer, re-establishing homework and study routines, and deciding that maybe summer isn't as long and boring as they thought it was sixteen days ago.
Okay, maybe not THAT creative. photo credit: Lunchbots bento for 5th grade boy – puzzle cheese for autism via photopin (license)
I've been pretty busy, too. I've packed a variety of creative lunches (not just the slapped together peanut butter sandwiches my children can expect every day by late March), signed and returned every form that's come home wadded up in the bottom of a backpack, and filed away roughly a billion flyers, making note of PTA fundraiser dates and soccer practice schedules.
And since I work from home, which means that when my children are home, I don't really get to work (or at least I do a very different kind of work), I've had a remarkably productive sixteen days without the constant interruption of, "MOM!"
I have submitted two new short stories, added another 12,000 words to my current novel project, posted to my blog two Thursdays (and now three) in a row, attended my weekly critique group meeting three times (where I both gave and received both brilliant and terrible advice), and disappeared down several research rabbit holes. I'm even getting a start on my reading list.
You could say I'm on something of a sixteen day roll. Sixteen glorious days! That makes two entire weeks, and it would be three tomorrow.
If they had school tomorrow.
They don't because it's Labor Day weekend. Monday is a national holiday and all that and our school district, like many, decided to put a teacher planning and in-service training day on Friday, giving students a four day weekend. It's probably a good idea. Families can travel or whatever. And I certainly don't begrudge teachers their planning and in-service days. I realize those are important.
But I feel like we were just starting to hit our stride. I want my day back!
I imagine this is kind of how the people of Great Britain felt when they woke up on the morning of September 3, 1752 and realized the day didn't actually exist. That year, British citizens (including those in the American colonies) went to bed on September 2 and woke up on September 14, skipping over eleven days in the process.
The calendar change was proposed by Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield whose birthday is on September 22. Guess he got to open his presents a little bit earlier in 1752. Portrait by Allan Ramsey. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
It was probably a good idea. Great Britain had been following the Julian calendar, introduced in 46 BC. That would have been all well and good except that the calendar was based on a solar year that had been miscalculated by 11 minutes. What wasn't such a big miscalculation in 46 BC, had after a while become a very big deal, sending the calendar completely out of sync with the seasons and wreaking havoc on the Catholic feast schedule.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decided he'd had enough and proposed the Gregorian calendar which is much more accurate as long as you add a day every few years and a second or so once in a while. While Catholic nations were quick to adopt the new system, Protestant nations were less enthusiastic.
But in 1750, Parliament decided that doing business with the rest of Europe was somewhat difficult when no one could figure out what day it was, and the plan was set in motion. Two years later September got the shaft.
Rumors have swirled across the pages of history books that the people rioted in the streets because their government had the audacity to steal 11 days of their lives. The source of that rumor, as it turns out, is probably a satirical work by William Hogarth. During the next election season in which the Tories drummed up distaste for the Whigs by publicly blaming them for cancelling the first half of September and ruining everyone's year, Hogarth produced a painting depicting the rioting horde with placards that read: "Give us our 11 days."
An Election Entertainment by William Hogarth. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
And history was invented.
I may be no William Hogarth, but…nope, I got nothing. I'll just stick to writing.
I imagine the change did make some people grumble for a while (especially those with birthdays in early September) but others didn't seem to mind so much. In America (where people were evidently less prone to riot for no real purpose than they are today), Benjamin Franklin wrote of the calendar change, "It is pleasant for an old man to go to bed on September 2, and not have to get up until September 14."
So as the school district steals what should have been my seventeenth productive day, I will try to channel my inner Ben Franklin and tell myself that it is pleasant for a mom to pack creative school lunches on September 3 and not have to do it again until September 8.
A Shocking Turkey Recipe
On November 20, 2014 By Sarah AngletonIn Animals, Holidays, Inventions7 Comments
The holiday season is nearly upon us, beginning here in the US with Thanksgiving next week. And if, like us, you're hosting family for the big day that means it's time to make plans for your turkey. We tend to prefer the Alton Brown brine method at our house, but I bet a fair few hosts are thinking of getting up at the crack of dawn to continually check and baste their birds until they are roasted to golden brown perfection. Other more adventurous sorts may be considering rigging up a deep fryer and spending the holiday at the hospital being treated for third degree burns.
Benjamin Franklin, reviewing his collection of turkey recipes.
But history suggests there may be an even better (and possibly more dangerous) way.
In 1750, before he famously tied a key to a kite string and invented the lightning rod, Benjamin Franklin hosted a Christmas dinner party. Interested as he was with exploring the properties of electricity, Franklin decided to educate and entertain as well as feed his guests. His theory was that by electrocuting his roasting turkey, he could produce a more tender meat.
And he wasn't wrong. In fact, his discovery is still important to the meat industry today, but it did come at a the expense of some personal pain and humiliation. As he was setting up an electrical jack he had designed specifically to meet all of his poultry electrocution needs, the plucky inventor received a pretty good shock himself. The gathering of witnesses to the experiment-gone-wrong reported a flash of light and a loud crack.
Whereas I would have tried to pretend the incident never happened and certainly would never mention it again (okay that's not true. I'd totally blog about it), Franklin wrote about the failure to his brother just two days later. In the letter, he describes in detail how the event made him feel, which was, more or less, bad. Numb in his arms and on the back of his neck until the next morning and still achy a couple days later, Franklin seems to have decided that electricity, though hilarious, is not necessarily something to trifle with (chalk up one more important discovery for Franklin). He makes no mention as to whether or not he felt tenderized by the experience.
Benjamin Franklin, determined to carry on despite his shocking turkey set-back.
Now I can hear the objections already: "But, Sarah, that can't be right. Benjamin Franklin was a friend to the turkey. He had great respect for it and even fought for its adoption as the symbol of the United States of America." I hear you, Dear Reader. And I understand your concern. I, like many of you, was an American school child so I am familiar with that story. If you don't wish to have your image of Benjamin Franklin as the great turkey advocate shattered, then feel free to stop reading at this point and assume that I'm just full of it.
But for those of you who want to know what's what, I'm going to share the real story with you. Even though Benjamin Franklin was a part of the original committee charged with choosing a design for the Great Seal of the United States, he recommended a rattlesnake to represent the young nation. Not once did he suggest a turkey.
Franklin also proposed this image of Moses and Pharaoh at the Red Sea for the Great Seal. Imagine the controversy that would have caused!
The idea that he did comes from an unrelated letter to his daughter written some years later when he was serving as an American envoy in Paris. To give some perspective, this was two years after the official adoption of the Great Seal, and six years after Franklin had served on the committee, again, making no mention of the turkey. He wrote the letter in response to his daughter's question as to his opinion of the newly forming Society of the Cincinnati, a fraternity of officers of the Continental Army.
The society, founded in May of 1783, adopted for its symbol a bald eagle, claimed by some to look somewhat more like a turkey. Though Franklin didn't oppose the society and eventually accepted an honorary membership in it, what he did not approve was the desire of some to make membership hereditary. This, he claimed, established an "order of hereditary knights," which contradicted the ideals set forward by the newly formed republic.
But to openly mock or question the intentions of the brave men whose leadership had won the United States its freedom was simply not Benjamin Franklin's style. Instead he focused on the turkey-eagle:
I am…not displeased that the figure is not known as a bald eagle, but looks more like a turkey. For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird…He is besides, though a little vain and silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red coat on.
I'm kind of partial to the bald eagle myself. photo credit: Thomas Hawk via photopin cc
I have to assume that despite his reference to the farmyard, Franklin would not wish the symbol of our nation or its high ranking officers to be the comically large-breasted domesticated flightless bird that graces our Thanksgiving tables. Perhaps he meant to suggest wild turkey, which is a full flavored, barrel-aged, American original that tends to give one courage. Or perhaps he meant the wild turkey, which hunters suggest is a slippery foe, difficult to sneak up on and evidently tricky to electrocute.
Whatever his true intentions, I think it is clear that though Benjamin Franklin was certainly a great American who helped to shape the United States and provide all of its half-blind citizens with bifocals, he could also, at times, be a bit of a turkey.


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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - Episode 2: Under Pressure
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - Episode 2: Under Pressure is ranked in the 41st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Unscored Reviews
Unscored
Dominic Leighton
There are still plenty of reasons to tune in to Telltale's Guardians, but this is a B-side rather than a hit single.
Jeremy Penter
Birth. Movies. Death.
Andrew Todd
While it's still one of the more outright comedies in the Telltale oeuvre, Guardians' story is one of grief and loss and regret.
Scored Reviews
MonsterVine
Spencer Legacy
Under Pressure veers away from the main story of TellTale's Guardians to focus on Rocket Raccoon's backstory, with surprisingly poignant and successful results.
PushStartPlay
Richard Lee Breslin
Episode Two 'Under Pressure' builds upon the opening episode and then some; it has drama, tension, action and heartbreak, so everything you want from a Telltale Games product.
Invision Community
Gergana Kermenliyska
I loved it so much and it managed to immerse me perfectly into the atmosphere of the guardians. The humor was on par where it could be, there were sentimental moments, enough action and all in all a very nice balance of all elements. I cannot wait to play the next episode and see the big reveal that we found at the end of episode 2.
Erin Soares
In the beginning it seems as if Telltale is struggling to find their groove, stumbling a bit before regaining focus.
Attack of the Fanboy
Kyle Hanson
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series - Episode 2 is another great episode from the developer. It's better than the first episode in a lot of ways, but still has troubling technical problems that detract from the fun.
Sam Spyrison
Under Pressure keeps the story flowing and the jams pumping as Telltale provides a rare look at one of the Guardians' upbringings. The hit-or-miss humor and standard technical malfunctions are still on full display, but the strong storytelling helps keep the season moving forward as the dysfunctional space crew keep searching for answers.
GameSpew
Richard Seagrave
If you're a fan of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and yet still on the fence with regards to the Telltale series, I'd consider getting down and making a purchase, pronto.
Nick Herber
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - Episode 2: Under Pressure continues what the first episode began, putting together an interesting tale about a group of misfits who are as often their own worst enemies as they are best friends to one another. Still, the quirky but lovable collection of characters helps to carry what has been only an average story so far, while demonstrating that there is plenty of potential to be had here in the upcoming chapters.
Sirus Gaming
Carlo Cutanda
Under Pressure is a great follow up and it looks like Telltale finally found the perfect balance between comedy and emotion and thanks to that cliff hanger of an ending, I can't wait to see what they have for us in Episode 3.
Twinfinite
Chris Jecks
It may not have you pausing your game and thinking over decisions quite like The Walking Dead did, but Guardians of the Galaxy constantly emanates feel-good vibes, reminiscent of Tales from the Borderlands. While I'm not convinced it'll ultimately live up to Rhys, Fiona and Loaderbot's escapades (my own personal favorite series), for sheer enjoyment, it's shaping up to come mighty close.
T.J. Hafer
Under Pressure transitions us off of the high-tempo radio hit that was the season opener and into a more relaxed slow jam punctuated with some meaty action riffs. The slower drip of meaningful events meant I didn't come off of it with the same level of feelgood euphoria I had after finishing Tangled Up in Blue, but Telltale is still doing an excellent job adapting this eccentric hero team to its tried-and-true format - particularly when the focus is on developing the characters and the relationships between them.
The second episode is better paced and more engaging than the opener, but still struggles under its own technical limitations
RPG Fan
Rob Rogan
Under Pressure provides more of the same with plenty of room for improvement.
Much better than the first, episode two features better pacing and more time being given to the supporting characters. I'm now excited to see where things go for the series.
Entertainment Buddha
Matt Heywood
Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy series continues with Under Pressure, the second of five planned episodes, and while it is competent and features a bit of Rocket lore, it still lacks that Guardians flair James Gunn has perfected in his live action films featuring the same characters.
Use a Potion
Daryl Leach
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series – Episode Two 'Under Pressure' doesn't feel as impactful as the first episode from both an action and storyline perspective, but it does enough to keep players entertained throughout it's roughly hour and a half run-time. Seeing this deeper look into Rocket Racoon's past was quite enlightening and I'm intrigued to see how it affects the story down the line – even if it did minimal to progress it right now. I'd probably say I preferred the Episode One over Under Pressure, though only just. The lack of new locations to see and actual exploration was pretty obvious, whilst some of the flaws remained the same here too. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy playing through it though and I'm still eagerly excited to see what comes next in the series.
Kallie Plagge
The second episode of Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy series takes on a slower pace with more focus on characters (and drama).
Josh Tolentino
Ultimately, while Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series: Under Pressure's array of choices doesn't quite feel as "consequential" as one might expect of the typical Telltale pitch, the new episode improves on the promise of the first outing's strengths in characterization, while still building up the main narrative into something a tad more engaging. Only the future will be able to show if these decisions will snowball properly, but the series now has me wanting to actually see that eventuality, which means it's done its job.
Kelly Packard
All in all it's a solid episode that feels decidedly rushed in the end — Rocket Raccoon's story is compelling, but it seems like the developer forgot they need to carry the main plot forward too, and left us on a massive cliffhanger to make up for it.
DualShockers
Ryan Meitzler
Though some of the series' weaker aspects are unlikely to go away any time soon like some of its technical and visual shortcomings, the deeper focus on characterization and the relationships that players will build between Star-Lord and the rest of the Guardians is one I deeply look forward to exploring in the coming episodes. Telltale nailed the look of Guardians of the Galaxy in the first two installments, and with Episode 2 they're finally getting a little closer to nailing the heart of it.
Shaheryar Ehsan-i-Haque
Wrapping up, Under Pressure continues the Guardians' adventure quite nicely. It lacks a little of the thrilling action that peppered the first episode but compensates with a tighter storyline and good narrative. In short, this episode fulfils all the check marks of Telltale and is a fairly good time for Marvel fans.
Cubed3
Olivia Falk
Under Pressure does a good job of showing the cracks that are beginning to form in the Guardians' relationships, while ironically filling some of the cracks that were present in the first chapter's presentation. It still needs some work to make it something truly special, and it remains to be seen whether the consequences will be worth the yawn-inducing build-up. Luckily, things are looking up, and as the main theme suggests, Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy is still very much a Livin' Thing.
BaziCenter
Mohamad Shokri
The second episode of Guardians of the Galaxy focuses more on character relationships in their pasts and continues to tell a great story. However, some technical glitches along with below par QTE scenes prevent it from becoming a superb title.
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Hey Poor Player
Jay Petrequin
I am continuously impressed by the personal emotional depths TellTale is willing to dive into with each character. I would argue that this is Rocket's episode more than anyone's. He gets a lengthy flashback sequence, which invested me as far into his character as two films managed to do, if not more. Drax and Gamora also show the first seeds of major character arcs that I'm hopeful to see in future episodes.
The PlayStation Hub
Leif Rey Bornales
Although I do appreciate that we get more airtime with the Guardians and experience their relationship with each other firsthand, I just felt I was being deprived of the action. I wanted more space fights, I wanted more action sequences. I wanted to see all of the Guardians in action. I wanted to see the chain of command jumping off from one Guardian to another. I didn't really get to experience that here. It was too far and few in between. The game needs to step it up and I hope that they can improve next episode.
PSX Brasil
Rodrigo Ribeiro de Oliveira
The second episode of the Guardians of the Galaxy season has its ups and downs. Despite delivering some interesting moments to the development of his characters (especially Rocket Racoon), the episode highlights some of the series' biggest problems: the lack of polishment in the graphics and meaningful game choices.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
TechRaptor
Samuel Guglielmo
Under Pressure continues most of the problems with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series. It's interesting, but not interesting enough. It's funny, but not funny enough. It has everything to make a good Telltale series, but not enough of it. I'm honestly starting to worry at this point.
Spaziogames
Stefania Sperandio
Under Pressure chooses the way of introspection and shows some Guardians' soul to the player, but the main storyline is pratically freezed and there are way too much QTEs to deal with.
CGMagazine
"Under Pressure" redeems one character, but raises questions about whether some of the series' problems are too well ingrained to be fixed in further episodes.
John Cal McCormick
Poignant character moments and some impressive use of pop music make Under Pressure a better episode than Tangled Up In Blue, but still nowhere near the lofty heights that we know Telltale is capable of. There's enough good work here to indicate that by the time the series is over it'll have given us reasons to care about the cast and what they're up to, but if you're on the fence about whether or not to pick up the season pass, you're probably best waiting a little longer to make that decision. The series has potential, but whether it'll ever manage to escape the shadow of the movies it is so desperately trying to recreate remains to be seen.
Rob Kershaw
Humour and pacing is sacrificed for a delve into Rocket's past, but even that cannot sustain a lacklustre storyline.
Player.One
Bob Fekete
My big problem with Telltale's take on Guardians of the Galaxy is that it just hasn't grabbed me like the other Telltalle series.
Gamers Heroes
The second episode of Guardians of the Galaxy does a fair job of setting the stage for future installments. If you can get over the consistency errors and hammy writing, you've got the potential for a b-movie blockbuster full of action, drama, and blue-skinned cyborgs.
Drew Hurley
The same problems as the first episode return. Outside of Rocket's flashback and some interactions with Nebula, the story fails to really grip the audience. The usual Telltale problems are once again in attendance, too, with some terrible performance and too many easy choices to make. That being said, the glimpse into Rocket's history is fantastic, and for those who have enjoyed the films thus far and want to dip their toe into the comics, this is seeming a fitting way to do so.
Josh Di Falco
If Under Pressure was meant to serve as a platform to build up the third episode, then it surely succeeded at that.
Marooners' Rock
Matt Kowalski
Sadly, Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy: The Telltale Series Ep 2 "Under Pressure" was more disappointing than its predecessor. Although Telltale improved on some of the negative factors of the first game, they dropped the ball or did not improve in other areas.
Digiato
Nima Farshin
It's still not clear what Telltale and Guardians of Galaxy are trying to achieve but from what we have experienced so far, there is no hope for the future of this game.


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Structure, diversity and evolution of myriapod hemocyanins
Christian Pick, Samantha Scherbaum, Elöd Hegedüs, Andreas Meyer, Michael Saur, Ruben Neumann, Jürgen Markl, Thorsten Burmester
FEBS Journal 2014, 281 (7): 1818-33
Oxygen transport in the hemolymph of many arthropods is mediated by hemocyanins, large copper-containing proteins that are well-studied in Chelicerata and Crustacea, but had long been considered unnecessary in the subphylum of Myriapoda. Only recently has it become evident that hemocyanins are present in Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda) and Spirostreptida (Diplopoda). Here we present evidence for a more widespread occurrence of hemocyanin in the myriapods. By means of RT-PCR, western blotting and database searches, hemocyanins were identified in the symphylans Hanseniella audax and Symphylella vulgaris, the chilopod Scolopendra subspinipes dehaani and the diplopod Polydesmus angustus. No hemocyanins were found in the diplopods Polyxenus lagurus, Cylindroiulus punctatus, Glomeris marginata, Glomeris pustulata and Arthrosphaera brandtii, or the chilopods Lithobius forficatus, Geophilus flavus and Strigamia maritima. This suggests multiple independent losses in myriapod taxa. Two independent hemocyanin subunits were found that were already present in the myriapod stem line. We specifically investigated the structure of the hemocyanin of P. angustus, which consists of three distinct subunits that occur in an approximately equimolar ratio. As deduced by 3D electron microscopy, the quaternary structure is a 3 × 6-mer that resembles the half structure of the 6 × 6-mer hemocyanin from Scutigera coleoptrata. It was analyzed more closely by homology modeling of 1 × 6-mers and their rigid-body fitting to the electron density map of the 3 × 6-mer. In addition, we obtained the cDNA sequence of a putative myriapod phenoloxidase. Phenoloxidases are related to the arthropod hemocyanins, but diverged before radiation of the arthropod subphyla.
Complete subunit sequences, structure and evolution of the 6 x 6-mer hemocyanin from the common house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata. Kristina Kusche, Anne Hembach, Silke Hagner-Holler, Wolfgang Gebauer, Thorsten Burmester European Journal of Biochemistry 2003, 270 (13): 2860-8
Origin and evolution of arthropod hemocyanins and related proteins. T Burmester Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 2002, 172 (2): 95-107
Identification, structure, and properties of hemocyanins from Diplopod myriapoda. E Jaenicke, H Decker, W Gebauer, J Markl, T Burmester Journal of Biological Chemistry 1999 October 8, 274 (41): 29071-4
Diplopod hemocyanin sequence and the phylogenetic position of the Myriapoda. K Kusche, T Burmester Molecular Biology and Evolution 2001, 18 (8): 1566-73
Phylogenetic position of Myriapoda revealed by 454 transcriptome sequencing. Peter Rehm, Karen Meusemann, Janus Borner, Bernhard Misof, Thorsten Burmester Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2014, 77: 25-33
Evolutionary history and diversity of arthropod hemocyanins. Thorsten Burmester Micron 2004, 35 (1): 121-2
Putative phenoloxidases in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis and the origin of the arthropod hemocyanin superfamily. A Immesberger, T Burmester Journal of Comparative Physiology. B, Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 2004, 174 (2): 169-80
The diversity and evolution of chelicerate hemocyanins. Peter Rehm, Christian Pick, Janus Borner, Jürgen Markl, Thorsten Burmester BMC Evolutionary Biology 2012, 12: 19
Subunit sequences of the 4 x 6-mer hemocyanin from the golden orb-web spider, Nephila inaurata. Anne Averdam, Jürgen Markl, Thorsten Burmester European Journal of Biochemistry 2003, 270 (16): 3432-9
Molecular evolution of the arthropod hemocyanin superfamily. T Burmester Molecular Biology and Evolution 2001, 18 (2): 184-95


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